Healthcare Enterprise Group

A few comments on the post by aspex earlier today.

A recent study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in which scientists observed the development of bacteria in 224 households for a year, showed no significant increase in resistant bacteria in houses using anti-bacterial instead of regular soap. Nor did it show that anti-bacterial soap led to healthier homes than regular soap.

However, Ebiox is better than either soap or anti-bacterial soap ...

Soap

Unlike anti-bacterial products, regular household soap helps separate bacteria from the skin so they wash down the drain or attach to the hand towel when hands are dried. Anti-bacterial soap kills the bacteria outright.

Anti-bacterial soap

Critics like Dr. Stuart Levy, president of the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, say these products should be banned for use in healthy households. Instead, he says, keep them where they are needed: in hospitals and in homes with very sick people at greater risk if they get a bacterial infection.

"We run the risk of changing the kinds of bacteria we confront every day in the home," said Levy, a professor of medicine and molecular biology at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Here's how, he says: The small percentage of bacteria that survive a brush with the soap may develop resistance to it. What's more, he says, some surviving bacteria may have an improved ability to pump out all threatening substances, including antibiotics used to cure infections.

Those survivors may pass that mutation to their offspring, and the adaptation can come to dominate an entire population of bacteria, creating a resistance.

Ebiox E-sense handwash/handrub

Ebiox employs a system of decontamination by removal. One of the ploymers lifts the bacteria and associated biofilm by breaking the electro-static charge that holds it to the surface ... skin, surgical instrument, worktop etc.

A second polymer encapsulates the debris and prevents it being re-deposited on the surface ... it is when debris is re-deposited onto the biofilm (that soap and anti-bacterials can't remove) that it becomes more resistant.

Finally the debris is destroyed by a process of oxidation.

It is clear that Ebiox wins every time.